Frameworks, platforms and automation tools with agent features that plan multi-step work and call other tools. The category overlaps with automation, scraping and coding tools, so listings appear here when the vendor documents agent capabilities.
6 tools
Cloud platform for web scraping and browser automation built around Actors, which are programs that run on Apify's infrastructure and save structured results. Includes a store of ready-made Actors, proxies and an MCP server.
Free plan available; paid plans from USD 17 per month, billed annually
API for searching the web, scraping pages and crawling sites, returning clean Markdown or structured data for AI applications. Offers SDKs, a CLI and an MCP server; plans are credit-based.
Free plan available; paid plans from USD 16 per month, billed annually
Mistral AI's developer API (Studio) for its language, OCR, speech, embedding and moderation models, billed per token, per page or per minute depending on the service, with batch and cached-input discounts.
Usage-based pricing
Workflow automation platform that combines a visual canvas with optional custom code and AI agent features. It can run on n8n Cloud or be self-hosted, and its pricing is based on workflow executions rather than steps.
Paid plans from EUR 20 per month, billed annually
AI IDE formerly sold as Windsurf; the vendor states Devin Desktop is the new name for Windsurf and windsurf.com now redirects to devin.ai. It centres on an agent command center for running local and cloud coding agents.
Free plan available; paid plans from USD 20 per month
Hosted automation platform that connects thousands of apps and AI models through multi-step workflows (Zaps), with governance tools for larger organizations. Pricing is based on tasks per month.
Free plan available; paid plans from USD 19.99 per month, billed annually
Zapier is a hosted, no-code automation service priced per task; n8n is a workflow tool you can run in its cloud or on your own servers, priced per workflow execution. The two models produce very different bills for the same automation, so this comparison starts with how each one charges and then covers hosting, limits and who each suits.
Apify and Firecrawl both collect web data, but they suit different jobs. Apify is a platform for running scrapers ("Actors") in the cloud; Firecrawl is an API that returns page content as Markdown or structured data. This comparison uses each vendor's official documentation and pricing pages, last checked on 24 October 2026; it is research-based and not the result of hands-on testing.